Born in a February dai in Düsseldorf (Germany), he became landscape painter who is distinguished for his colourful renderings of Naples, Rome and Venice. OSWALD ACHENBACH broke away from the classicist interpretation of landscapes scenes, making glowing colour effects. During his early childhood his family moved to Munich, where he attended primary school, later, his family returned to Düsseldorf, where in the elementary classes, he was instructed in the basics of drawing. In 1843 he began a journey through Upper Bavaria and North Tyrol, during which he continued his nature studies. Two years later, he undertook a journey to northern Italy. The paintings that he completed from this period predominantly consist of Italian landscape motifs
OSWALD ACHENBACH was one of the artists who opposed the Kunstakademie, becoming a member of two Düsseldorf’s art dissident associations. To find the desired tone, he focused on color impressions, setting layers of paint in different thicknesses over one another. In 1850, he undertook a trip to Italy, visiting the areas where earlier landscape painters had been inspired. He painted oil studies outdoors, where you can observe he was concentrated on the forms and the distribution of light within shadow characteristic colors.
Because had felt that his teaching constrained his own artistic work, in 1872 OSWALD ACHENBACH gave up his universitary professorship. His last big trip to Italy began in 1882, when he visited Florence and Rome, Naples and Sorrento. He died in Düsseldorf on day before his 78th birthday. He was buried in the North Cemetery in Düsseldorf, where until now you can visit his tomb. You can admire his 1898’s oil on wood “View of Florence” at the Museum Kunstpalast, in Düsseldorf.
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